From: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org (stillpt-digest) To: stillpt-digest@smoe.org Subject: stillpt-digest V4 #49 Reply-To: stillpt@smoe.org Sender: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-stillpt-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk stillpt-digest Tuesday, April 16 2002 Volume 04 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Buffy-related suicide ["David S. Bratman" ] b/spoilers for the rest of the season [meredith ] Re: b/spoilers for the rest of the season ["Marta Grabien" Subject: Buffy-related suicide LONDON (Reuters) - Playground bullies are harnessing the power of technology to persecute their victims round the clock, a children's charity warned on Monday. NCH said the latest generation of schoolchildren is without refuge from a phenomenon that all too often drives vulnerable kids to suicide -- with one in every four suffering bullying by text-message, email or in Internet chat-rooms. "The crucial difference from traditional bullying is that in the past kids who are being bullied could go home and find a safe haven," NCH associate director John Carr told Reuters. "But if they're bullied on their mobile (phone) or on the internet, then it's ever-present," he added. Carr said that schools were generally good in preventing bullying, but NCH wanted to make sure they were reacting to this new angle. "This is a new and insidious development," said Carr. "It can ruin lives and lead to suicide." Bullying was believed to have played a part in the suicide of 14-year old Laura Pendall, who hanged herself at her Bedford home in December. Friends told an inquest in March she had been teased for her interest in witchcraft and her obsession with TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Carr said the survey in March by BMRB had polled 856 children aged between 11 and 19. One in six had received bullying text messages, and about one in ten had been bullied over the Internet. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:21:47 -0400 From: meredith Subject: b/spoilers for the rest of the season Hi, What follows are the TV Guide description for the next new episode (to air April 30), followed by gleaned spoilers for the rest of the season, as supplied by aintitcoolnews.com. I'm kind of sorry I read them ... but in case you're not spoiler-allergic, scroll down. *** MAJOR SPOILER WARNING *** *** DIGEST MEMBERS CLOSE YOUR EYES!!! *** 6.18 Entropy. Teleplay by Drew Greenberg (Smashed, Older and Far Away). (Airs April 30.) Its an Anya-centric affair as the spurned Magic Box proprietress returns to vengeance demon mode and sets about evening the score with Xander. She gets her vengeance in an unexpected way: by impulsively bedding fellow spurnee Spike  as the Nerds of Doom watch! Buffy and Xander find out. Willow and Tara return to full coupledom. Buffy tells Dawn that Spike has been more than just a friend. 6.19 Seeing Red. Teleplay by Steve DeKnight (All the Way, Dead Things). (Airs May 7.) At episodes end, Warren accidentially shoots one of the Scoobies to death. Jonathan and Andrew find themselves tossed in stir. 6.20 Villains. Teleplay by Marti Noxon (Bargaining, Part I, Wrecked). (Airs May 14.) Willow, enraged by the Big Scooby Death (BSD), heads for the Magic Box, puts Anya in stasis and returns to the darkest magicks (turning Willows eyes and hair black) before she goes on the hunt for Warren. Buffy, who died last year, also takes a bullet, but Willow is now able to make the slug go away. A Warren-bot decoy fails to keep Willow from tormenting the real Warren (with Katrinas corpse, among other things) and killing him. Meanwhile, Spike arrives in sunny Africa to get his behavior-modifying brain-chip neutralized  or die trying. 6.21 Two to Go. 6.22 Grave. Teleplays by Doug Petrie (Flooded, As You Were) and David Fury (Life Serial, Gone), respectively. (Both air May 21.) Willow takes off after Warrens fellow Nerds of Doom. Giles returns, Spike returns, Buffy employs some very tough love, and young Ms. Rosenberg comes to her senses a little too late. Judging from these descriptions, it sounds like Tara is the one who gets it ... which will *seriously* bum me out. I hope it's all one big red herring. ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ======Next Up: N&K Nields 4/21/02====== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:42:48 -0700 From: "Marta Grabien" Subject: Re: b/spoilers for the rest of the season > What follows are the TV Guide description for the next new episode (to air > April 30), followed by gleaned spoilers for the rest of the season, as > supplied by aintitcoolnews.com. > > I'm kind of sorry I read them ... but in case you're not spoiler-allergic, > scroll down. I agree with your supposition on what will happen. I just expected it last season. ------------------------------ End of stillpt-digest V4 #49 ****************************